Francis of Assisi (1961) - IMDb

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Pope Innocence III was opposed at first. On the other hand, many cardinals thought that the existing religious orders needed to be reformed, that new ones were not needed, and that the new manner of understanding poverty could not be practiced. Rome did not want to approve this community because it seemed too rigid in reference to poverty, but at the end a cardinal said, “We cannot prohibit them from living how Christ established it in the Gospel.” They received the approval and they returned to Assisi to live in poverty, prayer, holy happiness, and great fraternity, together next to the church in the Porziuncula. Cardinal John Colonna argued in favor of Francis and thought that his rule expressed the same counsels the Gospel used to exhort others to perfection. Later on, the Pope recounted to his nephew, who in turn told Saint Bonaventure, that he had seen in his dreams a palm tree that grew rapidly and afterwards, he had seen Francis holding with his body the basilica of Saint John Lateran that was about to fall down. Five years later, the same Pope would have a similar dream about Saint Dominic. Innocence III ordered that Francis be called and verbally approved his rule; he then conferred the tonsure upon him along with his companions and gave them as a mission to preach penance.

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Saint Francis of Assisi - CATHOLIC SAINTS

The rule, as it was approved by Honorius III in 122, represented substantially the spirit and the way of life for which Saint Francis had struggled since the moment he stripped himself of all his rich clothing before the bishop of Assisi.

St. Francis of Assisi, Wanaque (Haskell) - Haskell, NJ

The Holy Father visited her twice and said, I wish I had so little need to be forgiven as this little nun has. Cardinals and bishops would also go visit her and ask her for advice.

Saint Francis had died already, but three of the saints favorite disciples, Friar Junipero, Friar Angel, and Friar Leon, read to Saint Clare the passion of Christ meanwhile she was in agony.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi - Pierced Hearts

That same night she made the decision of telling this to Francis and not to allow any obstacle to stop her from responding to the call of the Lord, placing in Him all her strength and determination.

Clare knew that the act of making this decision to follow Christ and, above all, to offer her life to the vision revealed to Francis, would be a cause of great opposition from her family, since the mere presence of the Friars Minor in Assisi had already been questioning the traditional way of life and customs untouched by the social circles and their privileges.

Francis Of Assisi: The Life (Augustine Thompson,

At the end of some days spent in prayer and fasting, Francis reemerged back into society, but he was so disfigured and poorly dressed that the people would make fun of him as if he was a crazy person. Very taken aback by the behavior of his son, Pedro Bernardone took him home, beat him furiously (Francis was 25 years old), placed grasshoppers on his feet, and locked him up in a bedroom. Francis’ mother made sure to set him free when her husband was away and, that way, Francis was able to return to San Damiano. His father went again after him, hit him on the head, and threatened him that if he did not return immediately to his house then he would have to renounce all of his inheritance and pay him the money from the clothing he had taken. Francis did not have any difficulty renouncing his inheritance, but he told his father that the money from the clothing belonged to God and the poor.

Saint Francis of Assisi - Chesterton, G

From thereafter, he began to visit and serve the sick in the hospitals. Sometimes he would give his clothing away to the poor; other times he would give away the money he had with him. He would serve them with great care because the prophet Isaiah tells us that Christ Crucified was rejected and treated as a leper. In this way, he would develop his spirit of poverty, his profound sense of humility and his great compassion. On certain occasions, meanwhile he prayed in the church of San Damiano in the outskirts of Assisi, it seemed to him that the crucifix repeated three times, “Francis, repair my Church which, as you can see, is falling into ruins.” The saint, seeing that the church was found in a bad state, thought that the Lord wanted him to repair it. So he left immediately and took a large quantity of clothing from his father’s store and sold them along with his horse. At once, he took the money to the poor priest who was in charge of the church of San Damiano and asked him permission to live with him. The good priest consented to allow Francis to stay with him, but he did not accept the money. The young man placed it on the windowsill. Upon finding out what his son did, Peter Bernardone headed angrily to San Damiano, but Francis was very careful to hide himself.

The Life of St. Francis of Assisi - St. Bonaventure - Discount Books

Saint Francis and his companions transferred temporarily to a cabin of Rivo Torto in the outskirts of Assisi from where they would leave to go preach all over the region. Shortly after, they had difficulties with a farmer who was claiming the cabin as his own so that he may use it as a barn for his donkey. Francis responded, “God has called us to prepare stables not donkeys,” and he immediately left the place and headed towards the abbot of Monte Subasio. In 1212, the abbot gave Francis the chapel of the Porziuncula with the condition that he always conserve it as the main church of the new order. The Saint refused to accept the property of the small chapel and only consented to borrowing it. As a proof that the Porziuncula would continue as property of the Benedictines, Francis would send them every year, in recompense for the loan, a basket of fish taken from the neighboring stream.